Chapter 667: Shipwreck
Zhou Dashan understood my worries, helped me sit down, quickly picked up the wood pulp, and began to paddle without stopping.
The raft was moving quickly on the water, and the king of the mountain and the four female ghosts on the boat were still busy filling the hole, either looking for suitable stones to hold down the hole, or trying to remove a few pieces of wood from the side of the boat to block it.
Unfortunately, my pulp continued to burn, and it was quickly burned off, and it was scattered all over the ship in small pieces, causing the planks to burn in several places.
"Extinguish the fire and plug the hole!"
The mountain king's voice was hoarse, and after a few moments of breathing on the raft, my chest felt smooth, and I stood up and tiptoed into their boat.
A female ghost picked up a stone of a suitable size and pressed it against the hole, which immediately slowed down the speed of the river water coming in, and the rest of the ghosts either stepped on the planks of the boat that had begun to emit black smoke with their feet, or used the water that had already entered the boat to extinguish the fire.
Hearing only a "click", the king of the mountain stepped on a board that was about to catch fire in a rage, but he did not expect to use too much force to step on a large hole in the board, and his whole foot broke through the plank and stepped into the water.
Immediately after that, there was a "plop" sound, and after being stepped on by the king of the mountain, the boat shook violently, and the big stone that was originally blocked at the mouth of the hole fell into the water from the mouth of the hole, and the original opening was much wider.
I was amused by this scene, and the little murderer stood on my shoulder, and let out a loud cry of joy.
The deeper we traveled on the Lechuan River, the clearer the visibility on the river became, no more than the shore that could only be seen within a few meters because it was obscured by dense fog, so although it was nearly a hundred meters away, we could still see the situation behind it clearly.
"Throw stones!" The King of the Mountain finally knew that he was going to abandon the weight of the ship, and he grabbed two boulders and threw them at us.
I stood firmly on the raft and did nothing, watching with my own eyes as the stones fell into the water in front of me.
The raft had already left the boat behind him more than a hundred meters, and at such a distance, the accuracy of the Mountain King's stone throwing was a little worse, even if one or two stones flew here accurately, the strength was almost exhausted, I only needed to pat it lightly with my hand, and it couldn't hurt us at all.
The king of the mountain did not give up, and cursed his mother, and while beckoning the raft behind him to row over to meet them, he continued to throw stones at us.
After throwing forty or fifty stones back and forth, he was at last exhausted and out of breath, and could not afford to throw them that far, so he threw the remaining stones from the boat into the river quickly.
Anyway, more and more water came into the boat, and at last their boat almost stopped in the middle of the river, unable to move a single step, spinning in circles, sinking deeper and deeper, and seeing that it was about to sink.
The other four rafts finally rushed over, and at the moment when the boat was about to fall, they successfully rescued the king and the four female ghosts on the raft.
The four female ghosts were rescued on the three rafts, and the king of the mountain was personally pulled onto the raft where he was by the three fat-headed ghosts in the village.
I watched as the fat-headed ghost pulled the Mountain King onto the raft he was on, and then nervously pointed to the boat that had sunk into the water.
"Oh no, my lord, we're all on this boat."
As soon as the king of the mountain sat down on the raft, as soon as he heard the words of the fat-headed ghost, he immediately commanded the four male ghosts on the raft who were paddling the raft, "Jump down and get the food back." ”
Several ghosts looked at each other, and finally replied cautiously: "King, you have forgotten, among us you are highly skilled, and the water is excellent, we are afraid that if we can't save the food after jumping down, we will delay the best salvage time." ”
The king of the mountain scolded angrily again, and before he had time to rest, he jumped into the water and dived in.
All four rafts were parked above the water, all waiting for the King of the Mountain, and our raft was farther away from them.
I sat down and watched with great interest at the scene in the distance.
It was a long time before the King of the Mountain poked his head out of the water, carrying two cloth bags in his hands, and he gasped for breath, looking embarrassed and disappointed.
"I can only save so much, and the rest has sunk underwater."
A few ghosts dragged the king of the mountain up to the raft again, and I saw that he was holding two half-large bags with thick waists, and I counted them, and there were twenty-three of them in this group of ghosts, including the king and four female ghosts, and they could only last for two days at most with such a little food.
Now that the fastest boat has been destroyed, it will be at least a long time before they catch up with us again, and when they have all their food, I would like to see if they will continue to chase or go ashore to forage for food.
After getting back on the raft, the king of the mountain sat down in one breath, looked at the raft that was getting faster and faster, and scolded me with hatred: "Boy, when I catch you, I must swallow you alive." ”
Zhou Dashan continued to row the boat, while watching what was happening behind him, he leaned forward and fell back happily, and I laughed, ignoring the curse of the mountain king.
In the midst of the cheerful laughter of the two of us, our raft had left behind the ghosts behind us for nearly two or three hundred meters.
After this afternoon, these ghosts did not try to catch up with us by rowing the raft at high speed, although they were outnumbered and oared, but in recent days they must have spent a lot of energy paddling at great speed to catch up with us, and I think they will need to rest to recover their strength, at least until tomorrow, and we should be safe.
And tomorrow, Sunrise Master Ancestor may also recover completely, and with her help, it will be easier to deal with these ghosts.
After that, the four rafts always kept a certain distance from us, and we only had one piece of wood pulp left, so Zhou Dashan and I took turns rowing, although we didn't see any movement from them, but we didn't dare to be careless, and kept the frequency of rowing in a fast rhythm.
At dusk, we stopped for a moment and let the raft move on its own, and I cut off a piece of meat, shared it with Zhou Dashan, and fed Sunrise and Xiao Fierce some more.
Looking back, the four rafts were also close together, and the king of the mountain took something out of the cloth bag and distributed it to more than twenty ghosts.
I wondered what their food was, and it wasn't clear enough from a distance, it looked reddish and white, and it looked like the meat of some animal.
After dinner, the sky soon darkened, Zhou Dashan had already been tired from rowing the raft all afternoon, I asked him to lie down and rest, and I was responsible for keeping watch for the night.